Andrew Cusulos

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Thomas Piketty's <i>Capital in the 21st Century</i> is the most important economics book of the year, if not the decade. It's also 696 pages long, translated from French, filled with methodological asides and in-depth looks at unique data, packed with allusions to 19th century novels, and generally a bit …

Congress and the courts will sort out the big questions about privacy and surveillance posed by Edward Snowden’s disclosure of National Security Agency (NSA) monitoring programs. In the meantime, there are some nagging smaller questions raised by this hemorrhage of secrets.<p>These mundane questions …

The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy led directly to the passage of a historic law, the Gun Control Act of 1968. Does that change your view of the assassinations? Should we be grateful for the deaths of these two men?<p>Of course not. That’s lunatic logic. But the same …

The federal government is hoovering up Americans' digital address books. Benjamin Wittes would rather you didn't know that.<p>Email is now the primary way that many Americans communicate with one another. Our email address books afford a virtually comprehensive list of everyone we know: members of our …

Leaked classified documents show the U.S. National Security Agency and its British counterpart are among the "worst offenders" of mass surveillance without oversight, according to an open letter purportedly written by Edward Snowden and published Sunday by the German magazine Der Spiegel.<p>The …